Valery Bespalov

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Hero of Ukraine Valery Bespalov OGS
Валерий Беспалов
Born	(1957-09-21) 21 September 1957 (age 67) Lisivka [uk], Donetsk Oblast, USSR
Citizenship	USSR → Ukraine
Known for	one of Chernobyl liquidators
Awards	Hero of Ukraine
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Chernobyl disaster
Sarcophagus over reactor No. 4 in 2013
Effects Comparison with other radioactivity releases Comparison with Fukushima Cultural impact Deaths Dogs Elephant's Foot Groundwater contamination TORCH report
Individuals Aleksandr Akimov Anatoly Dyatlov Vasily Ignatenko Valery Khodemchuk Boris Shcherbina Valery Legasov Mykola Melnyk Vassili Nesterenko Vladimir Pikalov Volodymyr Pravyk Nikolai Tarakanov Leonid Telyatnikov Leonid Toptunov
Locations Exclusion Zone Chernihiv–Ovruch railway Chernobyl power plant Kopachi Opachychi Poliske Red Forest Tarasy Velyki Klishchi Vilcha Yaniv Polesie Reserve Aravichy Dzernavichy Pripyat amusement park Azure swimming pool Avanhard stadium FC Stroitel Energetik cultural palace Jupiter factory Polissya hotel Slavutych
Organisations Chernobyl Children International Children of Chernobyl Benefit Concert Chernobyl Forum Chernobyl Recovery and Development Programme Chernobyl Shelter Fund Friends of Chernobyl's Children State Institution for Radiation Monitoring and Radiation Safety
Related topics 2022 Russian capture of Chernobyl Chernobyl: Abyss (2021 film) Chernobyl (2019 miniseries) Chernobyl liquidators Chernobyl necklace Chernobylite Sarcophagus New Safe Confinement Samosely National Chernobyl Museum
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Valery Alekseyevich Bespalov (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Беспалов; Ukrainian: Валерій Олексійович Беспалов, romanized: Valerii Oleksiiovych Bespalov; born 21 September 1957) is an engineer who worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. After the Chernobyl disaster, he was one of the three men in the "suicide squad" team to drain the steam suppression pools under the fourth reactor building. In 2019 he was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine.^[1][2][3]

Despite media reports claiming the three men died of radiation poisoning shortly after the incident, he remains alive in Kyiv as of 2019.^[4]

Bespalov was portrayed by Philip Barantini in the Sky/HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019).

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